Optimal Bowel Movement Frequency
Lasting for 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the greatest ancient civilizations—with a vastly...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
What are the effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk? Given the decades of experience using ketogenic diets to treat certain cases of pediatric epilepsy, a body of safety data has accumulated. Nutrient deficiencies...
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Plant-Based Diets as the Nutritional Equivalent of Quitting Smoking
Despite the most widely accepted and well-established chronic disease practice guidelines uniformly calling for lifestyle...
How Much Nutrition Education Do Doctors Get?
In the United States, most deaths are preventable and related to nutrition. Given that the...
Can Oatmeal Reverse Heart Disease?
Fiber continues to be singled out as a nutrient of public health concern. We’re getting...
What Happened to the Rice Diet?
During his career at Duke, Dr. Walter Kempner treated more than 18,000 patients with his...
The Five Most Important Dietary Tweaks
Generally, adherence to healthy lifestyle patterns has decreased during the last 18 years. Obesity is...
How Much Fiber Should You Eat Every Day?
High dietary fiber intake may help prevent strokes. The belief that dietary fiber intake is...
What Not to Add to White Rice, Potatoes, or Pasta
Rice currently feeds almost half the human population, making it the single most important staple...
Four Ways to Improve on the Mediterranean Diet
The traditional Mediterranean diet can be considered mainly, but not exclusively, as a plant-based diet,...
The Two Most Active Ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet
Olives and nuts are plant foods, and as such, are packed with antioxidants, raising the...
Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention
In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447...
What’s the Mediterranean Diet’s Secret?
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
Flaxseeds Can Have Profound Effect on Hypertension
A recent article in the journal, Meat Science, acknowledged that a sector of the population...
Introducing the Kempner Rice Diet
Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought us through the Great Depression and World War II. Who knows...
How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention...
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Preventing...
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes
It’s safe to say that Alzheimer’s disease research is in a “state of crisis.” For...
GMO Soy and Breast Cancer
In response to concerns raised about the toxicity of Monsanto’s roundup pesticide, which ends up...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
Egg Consumption and LDL Cholesterol Size
Maria Fernandez has received nearly a half million dollars from the egg industry and writes...
The #1 Dietary Risk Factor Is Not Eating Enough Fruit
The Global Burden of Disease Study published in 2012, is the most comprehensive and systematic...
Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of...
Eliminate Most of Your Chronic Disease Risk in Four Steps
In 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the doctor of the future will give no medicine,...
